"But what was your father that he could not learn you to draw the sword! It is most ungentle; I have not heard the match of that in anyone."Robert Louis Stevenson, Catriona (1892), pt. I, ch. 10
"It is most misconvenient at least," said I; "and I think my father (honest man!) must have been wool-gathering to learn me Latin in the place of it."
commonplace book. n. Formerly Book of common places (see commonplace n. 3). orig. A book in which ‘commonplaces’ or passages important for reference were collected, usually under general heads; hence, a book in which one records passages or matters to be especially remembered or referred to, with or without arrangement.
OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2015. Web. 5 April 2015.
commonplace blog. n A commonplace book in a blog.
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
What should a gentleman teach his son?
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